Resources

This commentary by ICI summarises the "Bitter sweets" report’s main findings and recommendations. It includes analysis of the implications of these findings and places them in the context of current and planed initiatives by governments, civil society and industry.

This paper examines six common perceptions around unconditional cash transfer programming using evaluations from sub-Saharan Africa. It looks at the perception that transfers lead to higher alcohol or tobacco use, create dependency and are fiscally unsustainable.

The Phase II of the Ghanaian National Plan of Action was developed by the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations and the National Steering on Child Labour (NSCCL) in consultation with key stakeholders in the fight against child labour.

The Walk Free Foundation, an Australian organisation dedicated to ending contemporary slavery and human trafficking, issued the 2018 version of their “Global Slavery Index” on 19 July 2018. The index provides a country by country ranking of the number of people in modern slavery, as well as an analysis of the actions governments are taking to respond, and the factors that make people vulnerable. This year, the Global Slavery Index featured a chapter on forced labour related to cocoa in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.

This report presents a Living Income benchmark for cocoa-producing areas of Ghana. The benchmark was commissioned by the Living Income Community of Practice, which brings together sustainability standards systems, businesses, government bodies, NGOs, finance and producer groups to support activities focused on improving smallholder incomes, and enabling farmers to achieve a decent standard of living.